APPENDIX H: LOCAL HERITAGE LIST

Locally listing a heritage asset does not bring additional consent requirements over
and above those required for planning permission. It can, however, help to influence
planning decisions in a way that conserves and enhances local character.
The Heritage Assets included in this list were selected as they appeared on the first
OS map of the parish in 1886, plus two later ones of historical interest: Shepherd
House and the Old School, Cross Hands.
NOMINATED ASSET
1. Blackmore House, Blackmore Park,
Hanley Swan WR8 0EF

JUSTIFICATION
Formerly Bower Farm, this 18th century property is of
historical importance as one of the major farmsteads
forming part of the Blackmore Park estate.
2. Park Lodge, Blackmore Park Road,
Built in 1874 as the western boundary lodge to the
Hanley Swan WR8 0EF
Blackmore Park estate. Interesting architectural
features include a moulded 'h' set into the brickwork
identifying the Hornyold family of Blackmore Park.
3. Marycroft, Blackmore Park, Hanley
Formerly Keeper's Cottage, this was built at the same
Swan WR8 0EF
time as Park Lodge as the residence of the head
gamekeeper at Blackmore Park; features the
moulded 'h' of the Hornyold family.
4. Berry Lodge Farm, Blackmore Park
Redbrick farmhouse of Georgian origin with
Road, Welland WR13 6NL
Edwardian extension.
5. Common Farm, Malvern Road, Hanley Traditional Victorian farmstead and outbuildings that
Swan WR8 0DX
once formed part of the Blackmore Park estate.
6. Shepherd House, Malvern Road,
Built in 1891 by the Church of Englands Waifs and
Hanley Swan WR8 0DX
Strays Society (now The Childrens Society), the
Home of the Good Shepherd, as Shepherd House
was first known, was a home for orphaned boys aged
4-13. The Home closed in 1950 and was taken over
by the county council but fell into disuse and by 1975
was virtually derelict. The council offered the building
to the children's charity, Highball Trust, which
refurbished it as hostel-style accommodation for up to
60 people. Today Highball still brings deprived
children to the house for around 30 weekends a year.
7. Gothic House 1 & 2, Hanley Swan
Two mid-19th century cottages of distinctive
WR8 0DX
appearance.
8. Walmer Lodge, Hanley Swan WR8
Regency house with slate roof.
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9. Village Stores & Post Office, Hanley
Dates back to the early 19th century when it was
Swan WR8 0DX
constructed as the Coach & Horses inn before being
bought by Sir Edmund Lechmere who converted it to
the Hanley Working Man's Institute. By the late 1860s
it was a grocer's shop and became a post office in
the mid-1890s.
10. Swan Inn, Worcester Road, Hanley
An important stopping point for drovers and stock for
Swan WR8 0EA
hundreds of years. It stands at the heart of the village

11. St Gabriel's Cottage, Worcester

Road, Hanley Swan WR8 0EA
12. Church Lodge, Worcester Road,
Hanley Swan WR9 0EA
13. Cygnet Lodge, Worcester Road,
Hanley Swan WR8 0EA
14. Stable Farm, Park Lane, Hanley
Swan WR8 0EF

16. Blackmore Grange, Blackmore End,

Hanley Swan WRE 0EE
17. Blackmore Lodge, Worcester Road,
Hanley Swan WRE 0EE
18. Steyning House, Blackmore End,
Hanley Swan WRE 0EE
19. Blackmore End Farm, Blackmore
End, Hanley Swan WRE 0EE
20. Blackmore End Cottage, Blackmore
End, Hanley Swan WRE 0EE
21. Honeypot Cottage, Blackmore End,
Hanley Swan WR8 0AH
22. Honeypot Farm, Blackmore End,
Hanley Swan WR8 0AH
23. Cedar Cottage, Worcester Road,
Hanley Castle WR8 0AQ
24. Rhydd Court, Worcester Road,
Hanley Castle WR8 0AD

25. Jubilee Cottages, Worcester Road,

Hanley Castle WR8 0AB

26. Sink Farm, Hangmans Lane, Hanley

Swan WR9 0AJ

of Hanley Swan.
Cottage of 17th century origin, a period of significant
development in the parish.
Blackmore Park estate lodge built in the 1870s.
Interesting architectural features include decorative
roof tiles and bargeboards.
Formerly Blackmore Farm, this farmhouse of 17th
century origin once formed part of the Blackmore
Park estate.
Handsome 18th century coach house that once
served the original mansion at the centre of the
Blackmore Park estate. Clock housing has a
mechanism of the same period as the house. Hipped
tiled roof.
Significant house of 18th century origin.
Blackmore Park estate lodge built in the 1870s;
features the moulded 'h' of the Hornyold family.
17th century farm cottage, now dilapidated but
representing a significant period in the development
of the parish.
Traditional Victorian farmstead and outbuildings that
once formed part of the Blackmore Park estate.
Cottage of 17th century origin.
Cottage of 17th century origin which, unusually,
retains its thatched roof.
Traditional Victorian farmstead and outbuildings that
once formed part of the Blackmore Park estate.
House of Regency origin with a hipped tiled roof.
The most important unlisted building in the parish,
Rhydd Court was built in 1803 for the Lechmere
family. Remodelled in 1863 by the architect David
Brandon, with a private chapel designed in the gothic
style by Charles Hansom added the following year.
Used as a hospital for wounded servicemen during
World War I and sold out of the Lechmere family in
1924. Since 2006 it has been run as a college for
autistic young people.
Two Lechmere estate cottages built in 1887 to mark
the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria's reign. A
plaque inscribed EAHL Jubilee 1887 identifies the
landowner as Sir Edmund Anthony Harley Lechmere
MP. The cottages have a hipped tiled roof.
Farmhouse of 17th century origin. It was already an
important estate when bought by Anthony Lechmere
in 1805 and is mentioned in Pitt's General View of the
Agriculture of the county of Worcester, 1813.

27. Tickeridge Farm, Haylers End,

Farmhouse of 17th century origin.
Hanley Swan WR8 0ED
28. Western Lodge, Roberts End, Hanley House of 17th century origin extensively rebuilt in
Swan WR8 0DL
1840 by James Lewis, surgeon, whose family lived
there from 1821 to 1881. Extended on three sides in
1895.
29. Woodruff & Milestone Cottage,
Adjoining cottages of 17th century origin.
Roberts End, Hanley Swan WR8 0DL
30. Pyndar Lodge, Roberts End, Hanley Regency villa with a three-storey extension added in
1830. Hipped slate roof. Described in Some
Swan WR8 0DN
Worcestershire Parsonages by Canon J S
Leatherbarrow, 1964, as A really fine Regency
house with French doors and verandah. Served St
Gabriel's church as a vicarage from 1954 to 1981.
31. Albion Lodge, Roberts End, Hanley
Recorded on the 1797 enclosure award as a cottage
Swan WR8 0DN
belonging to Thomas Broadstock, who rebuilt it in
1815. A three-storey extension was added in 1878 by
Henry Willan whose family occupied the house for
more than 100 years. Became a retirement home in
1985. Hipped slate roof.
32. Yew Tree House, Roberts End,
Substantial early 18th century property owned at the
Hanley Swan WR8 0DN
time of the enclosure act by the apothecary Robert
Ballard. In 1876 the house with 63 acres of land
extending to Gilberts End was bought by Alfred
Medley whose family lived there until 1919 when the
estate was bought by the Birmingham industrialist
John Wilson. Hipped tiled roof.
33. Hill Hampton, Roberts End, Hanley
18th century house and garden, former servants
Swan WR8 0DN
quarters for Yew Tree House. Hipped tiled roof.
34. Brummell Court, Roberts End, Hanley Formerly Elm House, then Catterall, this imposing
Swan WR8 0DN
10-bedroom Regency property was owned by the
cider merchant Francis Lucy from 1820 to 1864.
Then acquired by the Liverpool insurance broker
Samuel Martin who paid for the construction of St
Gabriel's church in 1872. Later bought by the musical
hall star George Lashwood, known as the Beau
Brummell of the stage, who renamed the house
Brummell Court. Hipped slate roof.
35. Yew Tree Cottage, Roberts End,
17th century cottage of special historic importance as
Hanley Swan WR9 0DN
the only house in the parish occupied by the same
family for 350 years, apart from a gap of 20 years.
36. Mortimer Lodge, Roberts End,
House of 18th century origin rebuilt in the 1830s,
Hanley Swan WR8 0DN
bought by Edward & Sarah Bradford in 1843 and
occupied by the Bradford family until the 1870s. Then
let to various tenants including Richard Ward, who
kept a diary (now in the archives of the Hanleys'
Village Society) recording events in the life of the
village during the year 1877. Sold out of the Bradford
family in 1914. Hipped slate roof.
37. Laurel Cottage, Roberts End, Hanley Regency cottage with slate roof.

Swan WR8 0DN

38. Horton Manor Cottage, Roberts End,
Hanley Swan WR8 0DN
39. The Grange, Roberts End, Hanley
Swan WR8 0DN
40. The Old Police Cottage, Roberts End,
Hanley Swan WR8 0DN
41. The Balconies, Roberts End, Hanley
Swan WR8 0DN
42. Forty Green, Roberts End, Hanley
Swan WR8 0DR

Cottage of 17th century origin.

Regency house built on the site of an older property.
Hipped slate roof.
Cottage built in the 1860s to house the parish's first
police constable.
Redbrick Georgian farmhouse with hipped roof. A
site of archaeological importance revealing evidence
of a medieval potters kiln.
House of 17th century origin, a period of significant
development in the parish. Owned by the Free
School (now Hanley Castle High School) at the time
of the 1795 Enclosure Act.
Cottage of 17th century origin.

43. Chance Flowers, Roberts End,

Hanley Swan WR9 0DR
44. Holloway Farm, Roberts End, Hanley Farmstead of 18th century or earlier origin. In 1852
Swan WR8 0DR
the tenant farmer, William Moore, used the first
mechanical implement in Worcestershire a reaping
machine requiring two horses and two men, a driver
and a raker. Bought by the Severn End estate in
1875 and still in the possession of the Lechmere
family.
45. Old Parsonage Farm, Roberts End,
Redbrick Georgian farmhouse built in 1777 by Sir
Hanley Castle WR8 0BU
Edmund Lechmere who gave the income from the
farm to the church in lieu of building a tithe barn. Sold
out of the Lechmere family in 1968.
46. The Old School, Cross Hands,
Built in 1893 as a mixed school of children aged 5-11
Hanley Castle WR8 0BJ
and infants. The architect was Lewis Sheppard of
Worcester whose coloured drawings of the school
are held in the Worcester Record Office. Closed in
the late 1970s and converted to a domestic
residence.
47. Old Post Office, Hanley Castle WR9 Built in the mid-19th century as the first post office in
0BJ
the parish.
48. Wistaria House, Church End, Hanley
Castle WR8 0BL
49. Cottages, Church End, Hanley Castle
WR8 0BL
50. Lodge Farm, Gilberts End, Hanley
Castle WR8 0AR

51. The Smithy, Gilberts End, Hanley

Castle WR8 0AS

Regency house in the Hanley Castle conservation

area. Hipped slate roof.
Terrace of four cottages Bramble Cottage, At Last,
Frandia & End Cottage of 17th century origin in the
Hanley Castle conservation area.
Originally a lodge at the centre of Hanley park, the
lord of the manor's hunting ground in medieval times,
it is referred to in Dr James Toomey's thesis, Hanley
Castle: A Medieval Woodland Manor, 1997. Rebuilt
as a redbrick Georgian farmhouse and outbuildings
around earlier remains.
A former smithy built around a 17th century core.

52. Kennel Ground, Gilberts End, Hanley

Castle WR8 0AS
53. Little Merebrook Cottage, Hanley
Swan WR8 0EH
54. Coneycroft, Picken End, Hanley
Swan WR8 0DQ
55. Lilac and Rose Cottages, Picken
End, Hanley Swan WR8 0DQ

56. Holly Cottage, Picken End, Hanley

Swan WR8 0DQ
57. Jasmine Cottage, Welland Road,
Hanley Swan WR8 0DA
58. Malvern House, Welland Road,
Hanley Swan WR8 0DA

Of 17th century origin, it was formerly the site of a

kennel for Hanley Hall hunting dogs.
Cottage of unknown origin with thatched roof.
Significant example of the high Victorian architectural
style, with decorative brickwork and substantial
Tudor-style chimneys.
These two cottages, first identified in the Enclosure
Award of 1797, were acquired by the Hornyold family
and occupied by estate labourers until the Blackmore
Park sale of 1919, when they were bought by 84year-old Jane Dovey whose family had occupied
Lilac Cottage since 1881.
Cottage of 17th century origin. From the mid-18th
century to 1921 it was owned by the Grammar
School (now Hanley Castle High School).
Early 19th century cottage with a hipped slate roof.
Victorian house built in the 1870s and converted to
an ironmongery shop and then a drapery store by
Henry Cowley followed by James Foster in the
1880/90s, as indicated by a painted sign still visible
on an outside wall. Served as the village bakery for
two generations in the 20th century. Hipped slate
roof.